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Why Iraq Blew up and Why This Affected the Middle East

Featured Photo Source: The photo above shows the different ethnic/religious groups. Photo is by Rafy from Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source. Today we head to the Middle East to look into one of the big factors of why it seems to be such an unstable region now a days, with it largely known for […]

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – 2021 Round Up and Goals for 2022

Featured Image: Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Well, this year was another wild ride. I was not able to do as much as I would have liked with the blog this year. Earlier this year I had put a focus to create bigger and better blog posts for The Weekly Rambler which would take more […]

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The North Shropshire By-Election – Conservative Upset?

An interesting parliamentary by-election will be taking place today. It is shaping up to be a test of the Conservatives and Boris Johnson’s electoral confidence of which lately we have seen backsliding in the polls over recent weeks, especially in light of controversies relating to whether or not Christmas parties took place at Downing Street […]

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The Government System of Mali

Mali is a landlocked country located in West Africa where it borders Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, and Mauritania. Its capital city is Bamako which is located in the southwestern part of the country on the river Niger. You may have heard of Mali in the news recently due to two recent […]

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The Government System of the Maldives

Maldives is a small tropical archipelago nation located in South Asia out in the Indian Ocean, and although the islands themselves are small they do stretch over a fairly wide area of ocean, it includes a chain of 26 atolls that stretch from Ivahandhippolhu Atoll in the North to Addu Atoll in the South, over the Equator. […]

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Barbados Becomes a Republic

Barbados became an independent nation from the British all the way back in 1966 although it remained a part of the Commonwealth Realm, meaning that the British Monarch remained the Head of State of the island nation (represented by an appointed Governor-General), which although largely ceremonial, still served an important constitutional role in the country […]

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Armed Forces of the Commonwealth – United Kingdom – The British Army – Part 2/2

Featured Photo (above): By Simon Q from Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Source. Ground Vehicles  The British Armed Forces has a large range of vehicles at its disposal from combat vehicles, protected patrol vehicles, reconnaissance vehicles, and logistical vehicles. They all serve various essential offensive, defensive, operational, transportation, and logistical roles.   First of all, we shall start […]

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The Government System of Malaysia

Malaysia is a country located in Southeast Asia including two large sections, one attached to the Malay Peninsula called Peninsula Malaysia bordered with Thailand and Singapore, and the other section located on the island of Borneo called East Malaysia bordering Brunei and Indonesia, Malaysia also includes many, many other tiny islands scattered about it. Malaysia’s […]

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The Government System of Malawi

Malawi is a landlocked country located in East Africa and it is bordered with Tanzania, Zambia, and Mozambique, it also borders along Lake Malawi, which makes up large parts of its borders with Tanzania and Mozambique. The capital city Lilongwe is located near to the centre of the country. In the earliest times the area […]

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Armed Forces of the Commonwealth – United Kingdom – The British Army – Part 1/2 

I thought I would have a crack at a new series on here. This series will focus on looking into the armed forces of each country a part of the Commonwealth of Nations, to learn about equipment of personnel, vehicles, weapons, and more. Naturally we shall start with the United Kingdom.   This for the United […]